It has often been said that there are three kinds of people, “those who do the action, those who watch the action and those who wonder what just happened. I have often found my self in the latter group. Still, watching Jensen Huang’s keynote at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference I have to wonder if Huang’s announcement that Nvidia is open sourcing the Xavier DLA will someday be viewed as an important step to bringing “brains” to the Internet of Things.
The Internet of Thinking Things
Nvidia’s president and CEO, Jensen Huang, wowed the crowd at last week’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) with technology advancements and ecosystems that will have an impact that ripples through many industries. And the resulting performance improvements are critical to keep up with the ever-growing demand for artificial intelligence-driving applications; whether on the desk-top or in the cloud (all the major cloud service providers offer Nvidia GPUs).
Secret Sauce Behind Car Sharing #CES2017
Who will run the autonomous mobility services of tomorrow? It may be the entities that are forming car-sharing services today. And, according to Alex Thibaut of Vulog, those entities are a varied bunch, ranging from automobile clubs, car manufacturers, energy conglomerates,insurance companies and local start-ups. In addition to lowering the cost of mobility, car-sharing provides users convenience.
The Gamification of Driving Insurance #CES2017
The gamification of driving insurance is one way to describe Liberty Mutual Insurance’s new apps. Intended as a way to provide rating of the actual driving habits of a prospective customer, Highway Hero does so by making a game of driving. This Liberty Mutual apps and their associated hardware are indicative of the bigger trend of how the Internet of Things is extending insurance beyond spreadsheets and into the real world.
The IoT Water Leak Insurance Plan
“We are making insurance tangible,” says David Henry of Roost in the above interview. Henry was speaking to the approach that some insurance companies are taking of bundling Internet-connected devices that detect, alter and prevent accidents. Henry describes Roost’s WiFi-based, leak detector and how insurance companies are starting to package Roost products as part of their offerings.
Some Tweets and Short Thoughts
- That 19 municipal utilities sent a letter to FCC Chairman Pai in support of rolling back Title II, Common Carrier rules, speaks volumes about the regulatory burden and associated disincentives these smaller operators see from said rules.
- RT @CALInnovates: Hands-free farming: Autonomous tractors and drones grow cereal crops
- Congratulations @GetMindMeld on acquisition by Cisco. Here is our CES2016 interview detailing how they help service providers add natural voice interface and artificial intelligence to their product offerings.
The Korner – From Dumb to Smart IoT Gas Cooktop
It is unsettling to be 50 miles from home and realize that you may have left on the gas stove-top. The founders of inirv saw this as an opportunity and created a device that detects the presence of gas and communicates to replacement knobs can, remotely via an app, turn off the range or cooktop. It also operates without an app some intelligence, so that if the gas is on but no movement is detected after a certain amount of time, it will automatically turn-off the gas.
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